The Vulnerable Adult Protective Investigative Team,
formed by District Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich, will satisfy state
legislation passed this year that requires all state district attorneys
to establish an elder abuse response team in their district effective
Jan. 1.

And it will address a crime that has increased in frequency as the Baby Boom generation reaches a vulnerable stage of life.

The Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability has
estimated that only one in 23 cases of elder abuse is reported,
attributing the silence to the fact that the victim often lives with
someone who controls his or her access to the outside world, finances,
meals, medication and everything else.

Representatives of the DA's office, local law enforcement, the state
Department of Human Services and the Coordinated Response to Elder
Abuse, or CREA, which includes the Aging Commission of the Mid-South,
Memphis Area Legal Services and numerous other agencies, are on board
in this battle.

Solidly behind the initiative is
the Plough Foundation, which conducted a two-year study of the issue,
found that there was no single organization with the capacity or
resources to lead the charge against elder abuse, and supported the
creation of CREA with a $3.45 million grant.

The foundation is
also providing funds to support the prosecutor's new elder abuse team,
consistent with its leadership in the effort to facilitate independent
living for the elderly.

The foundation has leveraged a $4
million grant into a $6 million Aging in Place program over the past two
years, working with partners Service Over Self and MLGW.

People
who suspect elder abuse can report it to adult protective services at
1-888-277-8366 or the Memphis and Shelby County Family Safety Center at
901-222-4400.

These new programs should encourage more reporting
of elder abuse so that more abusers can be held accountable for this
largely invisible crime.

2 comments:

This is being implemented in other states. It does not change anything for the actual abuse being done under court appointed Guardians. The abusive ISOLATION and the alienating of families by abusive Guardians that are liers and exploit. These laws already exists, to investigate abuse. It is just defined for elderly. Protective Elderly Services are hesitant to investigate when court appointed Guardians exist.

Our frail and Elderly need concrete action to stop abusive ISOLATION by anyone. ISOLATION is abusive and it is cruelty and it is the worse unimaginable torment done to humanity.We need laws, Legislators need to implement legislation to STOP abusive abusive ISOLATION. Most families don't have the financial means to get attorney to plead family and probate court to provide relief so loved ones can see their mother or farher etc. It should not be a freaking nightmare, total chaos in court by more appointed incompetent ad litem attorney..on and on. ABUSIVE ISOLATION must STOP.

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